York / Hybrid working – with occasional travel to other sites as required
12 months Fixed Term Contract
About the role
JRHT have recently set their strategic objectives, which includes new directions for JRHT Care Services. The Care Strategy programme has recently been established to support meeting these objectives.
The Senior Project Manager will project manage activity within the overall Care Strategy programme of work. You’ll lead the project team (comprising of workstream leads across several areas of the business) to support delivery of the project outcomes, as well as working closely with the programme manager, sponsor and key stakeholders to support and drive delivery.
About you
You’ll have experience in leading an effective project matrix team and supervising outputs, working across multiple workstreams to deliver outcomes. You will have significant project management experience and be confident in using various project tools and documentation, including reporting, planning, budget management and risk and issue identification and management.
You’ll be comfortable working with a variety of internal and external stakeholders at all levels, with the ability to establish and build relationships quickly and support successful stakeholder management. Familiar with working in a change environment, you’ll be confident in managing feedback from residents, colleagues and stakeholders and ensuring communication is sensitive and appropriate.
About us
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) is an independent social change organisation working to solve UK poverty. The Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust (JRHT) is a registered housing association and care provider in Yorkshire and the North East. JRF and JRHT are two important influencing organisations with an ambitious agenda for inspiring positive change in the UK in line with our vision of a prosperous and poverty free UK.
How to apply
If you share our passion and this role sounds like you, then we’re looking forward to hearing from you.
Please submit your CV and supporting information via our online application platform.
Closing date for applications is Monday 13th January 2025.
Interviews will be held week commencing 20th January 2025.
We reserve the right to bring the closing date forward should enough quality applications be received prior to the current closing date.
Additional Information
In support of our approach to flexible working, we are happy to receive applications from those seeking full-time employment, as well as those who may want to share the role on a part-time basis. When making your application, please state whether you want to be considered for either full or part-time work and, if part-time, the number of hours per week you would be looking for.
At JRF we’re at our best when we’re continually building on trust, showing we care and making a difference – and hope others will do the same. So, for those roles which allow it, we’re developing a more blended approach to how and where you work. This means you can expect to work flexibly between the office and home (with an expectation of two days a week in your home office).
Applications are welcome from all, regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or socioeconomic background. We positively encourage applications from people from marginalised backgrounds, including but not limited to those with experience of living in poverty.
We are committed to being an anti-racist organisation and operate an anonymised recruitment process so that bias is eliminated from the shortlisting process.
We are a
Disability Confident Employer.
This means that we are committed to the recruitment, progression and retention of disabled individuals. We shall also offer interviews to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the job. If you have a disability, please tell us if you would like to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have any additional needs and need reasonable adjustments to be made to the interview process, please let us know.
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Disability Confident Employer.
This means that we are committed to the recruitment, progression and retention of disabled individuals. We shall also offer interviews to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the job. If you have a disability, please tell us if you would like to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have any additional needs and need reasonable adjustments to be made to the interview process, please let us know.
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